Lost Series Questions
I don't read the online sites very often, and missed some episodes because I had to watch The Apprentice: Martha Stewart, so some of my questions may have already been answered.
Some things are being answered all of the time. For instance, I wondered why Hurley wound up in a mental institution. Then we learned that he blamed himself for the collapse of a balcony that killed a couple of people. So eventually everything will be answered, unless this goes the way of many series, and ratings start falling and the network weasels cancel the show.
I'm going to give my theory about the island later, because I'm sure I've figured out many things. Questions:
Charlie apparently took a seat near the front bathroom just before the crash. How did he wind up with the center section survivors?
We later learned there were survivors in the tail section of the plane. Will we later learn that there were also survivors in the front section (besides the pilot)?
How did Locke wind up in a wheelchair? In the earliest flashbacks he could walk.
Everyone else seems to have dark secrets. What are Jack's?
Hurley said the tail section clinical psychologist looked familiar. Was she a doctor at his mental institution? Or was she a patient? (I missed the very end of an episode where this may have been answered. The last I saw they were at the edge of a cliff.)
Those are my main questions. Later I'll give my history of the island.
Cherokee Casino of Oklahoma
So, here's what happened. After a string of winning poker sessions online (for play money) I thought it was time to try a live tournament. The nearest casino is the Cherokee Casino in Oklahoma and I saw that in just over a week, April 8th and 9th, they were having an "Oklahoma Johnny" Hale Tournament with the winner getting a $25000 seat into a World Poker Tour event.
After getting that information at the Cherokee Casino website I decided to go ahead and register for the tournament online. After entering name, address, and credit card information for the $500+$50 tournament, it said I would be picking up a Players Club card on the day of. This was the first I knew that I was joining the Players Club, but that was okay.
I checked my e-mail and found the following message (on March 30) from
playersclub.tournament@cherokeecasino.com:
COPY AND PASTE:
Cherokee Casino and Resort
Your registration information has been submitted and a confirmation email will be sent to you once the internal registration process has been completed.
Transaction #:***
END COPY (I've blacked out the transaction number.)
My reading of that is that I wasn't yet registered for the tournament, and would recieve an e-mail when I was registered. A month later I'm still waiting for that e-mail.
For a couple of days I waited. I figured the "registration process" involved a person entering the data. Nothing happened. It was now a weekend and I figured nothing would happen until Monday. By Monday night nothing had happened and I started trying to check my credit card to see if it had been charged. There will soon be a message here about credit card companies, but the short story is that I later learned that my credit card had been charged on March 30. I suppose my chips went in front of an empty seat and were blinded away.
This isn't the first time I've had trouble getting information from Cherokee's website. Once they gave a time for a Scotty Nguyen tournament satellite that was wrong. Later I found a different time in a poker magazine, which was probably right. But the magazine and the website ought to get the time from the same source. And since magazine information has to be submitted early, and a website can be updated up to the last minute, then the website ought to be more accurate. But it wasn't.
I would urge everyone not to trust any information on the Oklahoma Cherokee Casino website (
http://www.cherokeecasino.com/tulsa/cards_schedule_list.aspx). I would urge everyone not to register online. If you do either of these things then try to verify that the information you have is accurate. They are not committed to reaching users online.
By the way, I've now recieved a Cherokee Casino Magazine, which is sent to Players Club members, which apparently I am, although I've never picked up a Players Club card.
Cold Case Clues
Are we going to have to start going through the CBS series "Cold Case" frame by frame, looking for clues, the way we do with "Lost" on ABC? At the end of the episode "Death Penalty: Final Appeal," which aired on April 16, we were meant to read the newspaper headline in The Philadelphia Herald, "A. D. A. Danner Fired." Just below Danner's picture was another article headlined, "Another Bush Blunder," with an unreadable subtitle in which only the word "Republican(s)" stood out to me. That looks like a little message from the shows producers, or writers, or perhaps just the prop department.
If that's a message, are we supposed to read anything into the rest of the scene? Another headline is "Survival of the (Fittest)." On Danner's desk is a book with an unusual title. He puts his law degree from the University of Pennsylvania into a box. Do any of those have meaning?
The clues in "Lost" are better. Anyone know what DI 9FFTR731 means?
By the way, Kathryn Morris, the star of "Cold Case," appeared once on "Celebrity Poker Showdown." I think her poker nickname should be "Nine Lives." Get it? Kathryn Morris. Kat Morris. Morris the cat. From the
9Lives commercials. Well, I thought it was humorous.
